From:
sukieferret
Date: 2002-03-06 15:01:00 UTC
Subject: Reply to respiratory problems
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Influenza is a respiratory illness. Other symptoms may be
attached but it's primarily respiratory. "Stomach flu" is not flu, nor
are a slew of viral diseases, bacterial diseases, allergies,
poisonings, etc.
According to pathology work ferrets apparently don't get human
rhiinoviral "colds". They CAN catch bacterial sinus infections and
can catch influenza, and if the human had a mild case these will
seem like "colds".